You probably noticed I disappeared from Google Finance for a while. I have been extremely disappointed by Google Finance discussions board and their unwillingness to listen to user’s feedback. I decided to put together trading website that would allow decent discussions minus Google Finance shortcomings.
I completely revamped old Traderhood website. New Traderhood is designed to be place for discussing stocks and trading. It is organized by stock symbols, just like google finance. The big difference is that on Traderhood, DISCUSSION  is the main feature and everything else is designed around it. At Google finance discussions had been made less and less prominent. Last Friday (May 28th), was the last straw, when they obscured discussions almost completely. To access them you have to really search for little tiny link to find them.
Because the new Traderhood is built on completely different platform than the old one, those of you who already have an accounts will have to re-create them. Please use your google usernames when signing up so everyone knows who you are. This way we can maintain continuity.
admin 12:47 am on May 31, 2010 616 days ago Reply
I realize there are going to be little quirks that will need to be fixed and adjusted. Please keep posting any bugs you find, so they can be fixed. Speed will improve too over the time. More tools and charts will be implemented as we go too.
Nicu 4:37 am on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@admin
This is more like a suggestion / feature request than a bug report. Maybe one should be able to see the last post of any thread, instead or in addition to the first post. Related to that, keeping track of new posts (the thread was not viewed since the last n posts have arrived).
The second, maybe harder to implement, is to have some kind of tree view for replies … not sure is better than chronological, it boils down to the average length of threads. If they are very long, tree is better, eventually with a feature to hyde all replies to some post.
And some questions : no more chat room ? (not really necessary if the board is running smooth) no more dedicated trade “report” tools like “in call” “short” etc. ?
Thanks a lot for your efforts, it already looks great !
admin 1:00 pm on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@nicu
As for threads: Most of the stuff I did was done to make it easy for Google Finance users to feel familiar with environment + all the improvements google is unwilling to implement. I felt non-nested comments would put everyone more on the same level, but I have worked on nested version too, so it wouldn’t be too re-implement it.
As for having last comment first, I think it works great for live chatroom, but for posts I think it works better to have top to bottom chronological order to see the continuity of discussion.
One of the reasons I switched to discussion board from chatroom format was to have ability to look back and see old trades and exchanges. But I do have it on my list to implement some kind of Intraday chatter. There will be few “static” boards (no particular stock related) for discussions about things like technical analysis, taxes, option strategies etc. I am thinking to call the intraday trading chatter board “Trading Room” or something like that.
Nicu 1:34 pm on June 2, 2010 613 days ago Reply
@admin
I was referring about the last comment in the thread list (to see which thread got updated), not in the thread itself – I also like the chronological order here
Nicu 4:38 am on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@admin
BUG REPORT : not really important, but I appear like “nicu” instead of “Nicu”
admin 1:14 pm on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@nicu
username upper/lower case issue fixed
Nicu 4:58 am on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@admin
BUG REPORT – there seems to be some problem with the formatting, empty lines (for readability) are not always preserved, see my new thread.
admin 1:09 pm on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@nicu
formatting bug: thanks, I am aware of it. It will be fixed.
nolavabo 12:26 pm on June 1, 2010 615 days ago Reply
Suggestion – the “Add Comment” button should always be available/visible, without needing to click on “read more”
nolavabo 12:26 pm on June 1, 2010 615 days ago Reply
BUG REPORT – nolavabo here. When I posted the above comment, it identifies me as “admin”
admin 7:29 pm on June 1, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@admin
I see it. I will check it out.
admin 9:38 pm on June 1, 2010 614 days ago Reply
@nolavabo
thanks nolav. it is fixed now
RattyUK 8:39 am on June 8, 2010 608 days ago Reply
@admin
BUG: OK the reply button is labelled replay on front pages.
nolavabo 12:28 pm on June 1, 2010 615 days ago Reply
Trading – still holding all shorts. I can admit to being nervous over the weekend, but I am relieved now. The only technical indicators I had for holding were historical volume and multiple MA lines of support being broken. These are not good for short term timing – however, as I mentioned before I believe that the long-term up trend is now broken and has become a long-term down trend.
admin 3:12 am on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
Added 10 days price chart to “big picture” indexes/ETFs. Makes it easier to glance at most recent movements.
admin 1:07 pm on June 2, 2010 614 days ago Reply
As for hiding posts/comments. The whole rating thing should allow users to monitor traderhood themselves. Currently article/post hiding is active. Anytime users mark some article as -5, it will become blocked. Title, excerpt will be obfuscated and you will have to click on it to see what it is about. This should prevent FUD titles as users will mark blatant FUDing/flaming with rating it down. Same thing will be done with comments. It shouldn’t be difficult with nested comments to implement see/hide switch for threads. That’s a good idea.
Rick-o 9:27 pm on June 3, 2010 612 days ago Reply
Hey, thanks for building this site! Nice! I’m also getting tired of all the BS from Google. This will be a refreshing change. I’ll be hanging out, but I’m in lurk mode mostly.
My .02 is that I too like reading threads oldest message first. Keep up the good work!
admin 10:48 pm on June 3, 2010 612 days ago Reply
@rick-o
thanks Rick-o and welcome
nolavabo 8:35 am on June 4, 2010 612 days ago Reply
@admin
Agreed. A toggle to choose newest first or oldest first would be welcome.
@rick-o
Welcome. Feels like Google is trying to let their boards die a slow death through starving them to death.
RattyUK 7:34 am on June 7, 2010 609 days ago Reply
Google have pulled the original posting with links from here. Left all the spammy posts (of course) but decided to protect the world from useful information.
hawkeye 1:59 am on July 1, 2010 585 days ago Reply
Damn… I was looking to find one of my blog posts from before about value investing… would you be able to recover for me consch?
conshmillo 4:55 am on July 1, 2010 585 days ago Reply
If you posted it in daily chat, it’s gone. None of those were kept. That’s why I did the new one. Here is the link to remains of old traderhood, try if you can find something there…
http://old.traderhood.com